Frank Gilfeather: A hole lotta candidates for the WARPA awards
The current troubles surrounding Aberdeen’s ailing retail sector can’t be fixed by the local authority.
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Frank Gilfeather: Hugging is bugging me during these woke times
Hugging has been on my agenda in recent days.
Frank Gilfeather: Council should boot into touch Dons stadium plan
It’s like the death of an uncle you see only a few times a year.
Frank Gilfeather: No confidence vote was directed at wrong target
When the Holyrood inquiry committee delivered its findings on the Salmond-Sturgeon clash, nobody paid attention.
Frank Gilfeather: Hate crime hotline sounds like a ‘jobsworth charter’
The Hate Crime Bill has been a controversial piece of legislation and, in places, difficult to comprehend.
Frank Gilfeather: Own goal from Sturgeon over Rangers controversy
Nicola Sturgeon must feel as if she’s in one of those horror movies where the walls – with spikes – are closing in on her.
Frank Gilfeather: Titans clash in Scottish political fight of decade
Now we wait.
Frank Gilfeather: Failure to give SFA red card shows up Sturgeon
Say what you like about the Scottish Football Association, but you wouldn’t want them running a raffle for your local Scout troop or youth club.
Frank Gilfeather: Auchterless just might be more in this climate
Staycation. It’s the buzz word of the moment.
Frank Gilfeather: Royals no knockout blow to Scottish independence
For those unconvinced that Scottish independence would be a panacea for all our woes, we can at least be assured help is at hand from a (very) unlikely source.
Frank Gilfeather: Shot in the arm proved a trouble-free experience
She stood dominant and fearsome, tapping a long cane against her jackboots.
Frank Gilfeather: Saga continues as council kicks off new stadium plan
The local authority recognises that having the Dons in town would be good for the city centre economy, although God forbid there are any thoughts of using council taxpayer money as some kind of sweetener.
Frank Gilfeather: Brutal to think concrete beasts deserve status
Local authorities throughout the land have been grinding them into rubble for years.
Frank Gilfeather: There’s no masking the issues over indy-ref call
Okay, I admit it. I haven’t taken this Covid business seriously enough; until now.
Frank Gilfeather: Chaos and confusion the only consistency in Covid rules
A member of Parliament has been arrested, partygoers around the country have been heavily fined and even two mountaineers were penalised by the plods – all for breaking Covid restrictions.
Frank Gilfeather: Don’t fret, Nicola’s on the case at her Covid lectern
It's that time of year again when columnists wish their readers – even those who can’t quite come to terms that the writer’s opinions may differ from theirs – a Merry Christmas.
Frank Gilfeather: Are the cracks beginning to show from our leader Nicola Sturgeon?
Is Nicola Sturgeon’s star, and with it support for the SNP, on the wane?
Frank Gilfeather: Actors will soon not be the only people ‘resting’
I’ve always thought acting was quite a strange, precarious, but fun way to earn a living.
Frank Gilfeather: Our last chance to avoid relegation over Covid-19
Phew! That was a narrow escape.
Frank Gilfeather: Sir Geoff Hurst ahead of game in backing kids’ header ban
Had he been around today, Noel Coward might have had a new version of his song, Don’t Put Your Daughter on the Stage, Mrs Worthington.
Frank Gilfeather: Oh the joys of Scotland’s victory… or maybe not
It has been a near-catastrophic last few days in my house, what with the threat of the TV being removed after I dared to smile when Scotland beat Serbia to qualify for the European football championship next year.
Frank Gilfeather: No seamless transition back to the old normal
Are we heading for a happy ending to the Covid-19 story?
Frank Gilfeather: Golf course sycophants who swung in for Trump
Dear Mr President, as you will now forever be known. You have played a blinder in your role as the leader of the free world, with your finger on the pulse – not to say the red button – of global affairs.
Frank Gilfeather: Was Willie Young’s social media post offensive or crime against comedy?
Remember the Aberdeen nine? It’s just become 10.
Frank Gilfeather: She’s at her lectern daily – missing the big picture
I can see the posters: “Not coming to a town near you anytime soon: first minister super-glued to Covid lectern".
Frank Gilfeather: Aberdonians are best off in the UK… well that’s rich
If you're a working man or woman, resident in Aberdeen and reading this, contain yourself for a couple of minutes when I inform you that employees in the Granite City are awash with dosh.
Frank Gilfeather: Sturgeon hails free press as gaze turns on husband
Nicola Sturgeon has been praising the press this week, presumably through gritted teeth.
Frank Gilfeather: McLeish off target with appeal on football clubs
First, the stark, eye-popping fact: almost 100,000 people in Scotland could lose their jobs by the end of the year as the Covid crisis bites more deeply.
Frank Gilfeather: An open letter to Ms Sturgeon on curfew for bars and visit ban
Dear First Minister. I feel your pain. Those stiletto heels.
Frank Gilfeather: The Beeb’s obsession with young audience that really isn’t there
SUE Barker has confessed she had to be crow-barred out of the presenter’s seat of A Question of Sport and admitted she would not have gone voluntarily.